Blog Archive Here is the list of all blog posts ever on this site: Problems with “The Paradox of Choice” October 24, 2023 Can maximisers become satisficers? If so, how? September 19, 2023 Why should you want to be a satisficer? September 19, 2023 Why I write criticisms of books September 16, 2023 Why you have so many unnecessary or ineffective meetings September 4, 2023 My experience with time-blocking July 13, 2023 Criticisms of Ha-Joon Chang’s “Economics: The User’s Guide” July 4, 2023 Summaries are not substitutes for books June 19, 2023 Criticisms of So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport June 5, 2023 Is using ChatGPT cheating? How ChatGPT helped me write a blog post June 1, 2023 Range at an individual level vs a societal level May 24, 2023 Anecdotes are not Evidence May 18, 2023 Could ChatGPT End Up *Raising* the Quality of Writing and Public Discourse? May 16, 2023 The 48 Laws of Power vs The Prince May 8, 2023 Criticisms of “Talking to Strangers” by Malcolm Gladwell April 13, 2023 Why ChatGPT Will NOT Replace Human Writing April 10, 2023 Motivation, Morality and Demandingness February 22, 2023 Atomic Habits vs Tiny Habits: Which is Better? February 7, 2023 Problems with Atomic Habits by James Clear February 2, 2023 Living in the future vs the present January 6, 2023 Is the quest for “productivity” misguided? January 3, 2023 2022 Roundup December 28, 2022 The 48 Laws of Power is Not a “How To” Book November 7, 2022 Should we even seek power? November 5, 2022 Is “The 48 Laws of Power” Evil? October 26, 2022 Problems with the Total View of Population Ethics August 28, 2022 Sapiens vs Guns, Germs and Steel July 31, 2022 Criticisms of Guns, Germs and Steel June 12, 2022 Causality is so much harder than we normally think June 8, 2022 The “Shock Test” from How To Decide by Annie Duke May 18, 2022 Criticisms of “Bullshit Jobs” by David Graeber April 27, 2022 What I think Graeber got right in “Bullshit Jobs” April 24, 2022 My 7 categories of “bullshit jobs” April 15, 2022 Why I started this site April 14, 2022 Decision Hygiene March 27, 2022 Objective Ignorance March 25, 2022 How to Reduce Noise and Objections to Reducing Noise March 22, 2022 Prosecutor’s Fallacy and Base Rate Fallacy March 13, 2022 The Zettelkasten method March 5, 2022